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The most Powerful Piano Sonata


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In my opinion, I find MANY of the Beethoven Piano sonatas full of incredible brilliance and exurberance, but then I think of the Sonata's of Choin as well and and therefore stuck on which is more better. Like many other posts, this is a thread to find out what YOU think in YOUR opinion is the most Powerful sonata ever written.

Now, you can either scroll down and post a response, or read what more i have to say about the word 'powerful'.

For those who like to contradict:

By powerful, I dont mean loudest and most technically demanding. Power can be interpreted in SO many different ways. To me, I find power as something that can grip anyone and hold them there, forcing them to do everything they desire...like BDSM :O ok maybe not. To someone else, power may mean the ability to create emotions in another being with no, or little effort. So yes. Think about how you think of Power, and then apply it to a sonata.

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hmmmm.... the main ones I know are only Beethoven and Mozart... so I'd have to go with something like The Waldstein or the Appasionata. I have heard one by Liszt and it wasn't too bad but can't remember which one it was. All Beethoven's Pathetique is quite good - although not as technically difficult as the other ones I mentioned.

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Liszt's sonata is incredible, and so is Berg's :) I find them much more fulfilling than any Beethoven sonata, although it's not fair to compare them, as they belong to different genres (it would be totally unfair to compare a Barber sonata to a Scarlatti sonata, for example...)

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Most powerful, perhaps Alkan's large one. I forget the exact title, I think it's just "Grand Sonata" or something. It's in four movements and each has an age assigned to it. (I think Liszt did something similar before or after, cannot recall. Anyways, Alkan's is better.)

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